Drawing inspiration from Andy Warhol’s Goethe Green and Yellow and Lichtenstein’s Still Life with Crystal Bowl, Tran and coprincipal Vernon Applegate opted for a color palette of the decade’s grooviest hues, harvest gold and avocado green, and a materials selection that included a high dose of polyurethane plastic—considered “high tech” back in the day.

Of course, there’s a touch of organic goodness here, too—this is California, after all. The designers chose eco-friendly Caesarstone for the countertops, and the cabinets are sheathed in espresso-stained white-oak veneer. Tran, however, keeps circling back to that green hue, which even permeated a surrealist vision he had last summer, soon after completing the project. “I dreamed that I was in Dalí’s painting The Persistence of Memory, but instead of melted blue watches, the landscape was strewn with molten avocado halves,” recalls Tran. “Now, that’s dedication to design!”